Unit 1: Exploration & Colonization
These are the three things that explorers hoped to gain from the New World. (3 G's)
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
This general used strategic retreat during the American Revolution to make sure his men weren't entering into situations that they weren't prepared for.
Who is George Washington?
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution written by James Madison?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This occurred during Jackson's presidency. This was the forced removal of 15,000 Cherokee out of Georgia into Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This prominent abolitionist advocated for formerly enslaved people and urged Lincoln to let them fight on behalf of the Union army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What is the House of Burgesses?
This battle brought the American Revolution to an end.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Name three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
This established if a state would be a free state or slave state and established the 36'30 line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is Appomattox Court House?
This group of people came from England and settled in Pennsylvania.
What is the Quakers?
The name of the event in which delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia. It was the first time most of the colonies worked together.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This was one of the first two political parties. They believed in a weak central government, an economy based on agriculture, and they opposed the National Bank.
What is the Democratic Republicans?
This said that the Western hemisphere was closed to colonization by Europeans.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This act required any enslaved people who escaped slavery to be brought back to the South to be enslaved again.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This is someone who agreed to work in the New World for 4-7 years before receiving their freedom.
What is an indentured servant?
These two events were causes of the American Revolution because they led people to question traditional authority.
What is the Great Awakening & the Enlightenment?
What is the cotton gin?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people are property and therefore cannot sue for their freedom. It also undoes all previous land compromises.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This ultimately helped make the Jamestown settlement successful. (Be specific)
What is cash crops like tobacco?
The event that occurred after the Boston Massacre.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was a similarity between the VA Plan, NJ Plan, and CT Plan during the Constitutional Convention. (Think about power in the federal government)
What is three branches of government?
This was one of the main reasons that the Era of Good Feelings was considered "good." (Think about the government)
What is there was only one political party with the Democratic Republicans?
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was seen as a powerful anti-slavery tool that helped increase the abolition movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?